Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1910 — HOT REPLY OF WATSON [ARTICLE]

HOT REPLY OF WATSON

Denies That He Furnished Inside Information to the “Interests.” Indianapolis. Ind.. July 26. Former ex-Congressman James if. Watson. Rushvilie. right-hand bower of Speaker Cannon and "whip” of the House, when his term ended two year ago after Ciis defeat • lot* Coventor of Indiana. to-night in a signed statement to the Indianapolis Star i delivered a red-hot reply to the ! charges of Representative H amilton Fish before the Onieda County Republican Club, Utica,' : Y.Y~rthat Watson took advantage of his membership of the I Comimftee on Ways and Means | on information to the "interests." j during the framing of the PayneAldrich -bill. Representative Fish’s statements have received wide cir- | culation in Indiana. WatsonV | followers say they are being ! used to discredit him on account lof his determination to defend [the Payne-Aldrich law. Fish ; declared that W atson had ac- | cess to all of the information I gathered by the t W'ays and | Means Committee on the tariff. | and that he knew the inquiries it made to the Government Consuls and others. He charged that Watson appeared before the committee as paid representative of certain interests. Watson declared that he resigned from the committee before April, 1908, to accept the nominatibn for Governor, and that Congressman Crurripacker took bis place on the committee at that time. \ "